Bug#201347: O: ftape-tools -- Bleeding Edge floppy tape driver (utilities)
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of ftape-tools, Christian Meder
<meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>, has orphaned this package. Therefore, I
orphan this package now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please
take it -- see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for
detailed instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package:
Package: ftape-tools
Binary: ftape-util
Version: 1:1.09.2002.03.21-0.1
Priority: extra
Section: utils
Maintainer: Christian Meder <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>
Build-Depends: debhelper, gettext, texinfo
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.5.6
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/f/ftape-tools
Files: afcaec61950744012cd2ba2f9ec7407c 674 ftape-tools_1.09.2002.03.21-0.1.dsc
b10733b019fd99c8d7ec2b15f4916f19 639414 ftape-tools_1.09.2002.03.21.orig.tar.gz
b02679c32b3350f0db5d25afbaa4e92f 11628 ftape-tools_1.09.2002.03.21-0.1.diff.gz
Package: ftape-util
Priority: extra
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 1352
Maintainer: Christian Meder <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>
Architecture: i386
Source: ftape-tools
Version: 1:1.09.2002.03.21-0.1
Replaces: ftape-2.0.30
Depends: modutils (>= 2.1.85-14), debconf, libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
Suggests: wish, ftape-module
Conflicts: ftape-2.0.30
Filename: pool/main/f/ftape-tools/ftape-util_1.09.2002.03.21-0.1_i386.deb
Size: 386668
MD5sum: cc2a5eb912cb5f3475183059ffb9774d
Description: Bleeding Edge floppy tape driver (utilities)
A substitution for the stock ftape driver in the kernel. If you
want to use a floppy tape drive with a 2.0.x kernel you should definitely
use these sources instead of the stock ftape driver in the kernel.
This driver detects and supports many more tape drives than the
2.0.x driver which is ancient.
Compared to the 2.2.x stock ftape driver the difference is
reduced to support for the Iomega Ditto Max, parallel port floppy
tapes (Colorado Trakker, Iomega, Exabyte and Seagate parallel port
drives) and multiple tape drives in one box.
.
Supported drives according to upstream README:
"Currently, the driver supports many QIC-40/QIC-80/QIC-3010/QIC-3020
tape drives that conform to the respective QIC-* development
standards, as well as the Iomega Ditto 2GB and Max drives.
.
Some parallel port tape drives are also supported, too. These are the
Colorado Trakker and several kinds of parallel port drives that use
the Micro Solutions' "Backpack" protocol, i.e. the Iomega Ditto
parallel port drives, and some parallel port floppy tape drives made
by Exabyte and Seagate."
.
If you want to use the graphical frontend you've got to install a version
of the TK toolkit.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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